H.R. 4283 - For-Profit Educators' Holy Grail

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  1. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

  2. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    I don't see the credit transfer stuff the author discussed. It would be unusual to require accredited, not-for-profit schools to accept credits in transfer from unaccredited, for-profit schools. Perhaps the author doesn't understand accreditation. Wouldn't be the first time.

    (Sorry, but I looked at the bill and got tired immediately. So I searched for terms like "transfer" and "credit" and didn't see language creating the above situation.)
     
  3. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

    It doesn't say anything (as far as I know) about for-profit versus non-profit. But it does contain wording that would prevent a university from denying credit transfer based on an institution being nationally accredited (rather than regionally accredited) -- provided the accreditor is recognized by the Dept of Education.

    SEC. 486 (h) requires the following:
    • (A) A statement of the institution's current transfer of credit policies that includes at least--

      (i) a statement that transfer of credit shall not be denied solely on the basis of the agency or association that accredited such other eligible institution, if that agency or association is recognized by the Secretary pursuant to section 496 to be a reliable authority as to the quality of the education or training offered; and

      (ii) a statement that transfer of credit shall be decided on the basis of whether the courses or program are determined by the institution to be acceptable for credit in accordance with objective criteria that the institution publicly discloses and the student completed such courses or programs at the institution's required level of proficiency.

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  4. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

    Here's a summary in lay language from http://edworkforce.house.gov/heasummary.pdf
    • Make transfer of credit policies public. With recent data showing more than 50 percent of students attend multiple institutions of higher education, it has become increasingly important for students to have the flexibility to transfer their credits from one school to another. To make it more difficult for academic credits earned by students to be wrongly denied for territorial or political reasons, the bill will simply require institutions to have a transfer of credit policy, make that policy public, and follow that policy, as proposed originally in H.R. 3311. The College Access & Opportunity Act also ensures credits are not unfairly and arbitrarily denied based on the accreditor of a college or university where the credits being transferred were earned, so long as the accreditor is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
     

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